Hospitals and Healthcare

Exclusive: NHS bosses forced to spend millions on pest control in decrepit, rundown buildings

The NHS has heralded a “new era” of healthcare that will see hundreds of thousands of patients avoid lengthy hospital stays and instead be treated in their own

As it turns 75, the N.H.S., a proud symbol of Britain’s welfare state, is in the deepest crisis of its history.

But it’s not too late to save it.

British doctors are risking their jobs to speak out against what they say is an unfolding catastrophe in the national health system, with patients left lying on hospital floors and in corridors while they wait for help. 

Nurses may be given body cameras to protect them from aggressive patients as ministers try to repair relations with striking NHS staff.Steve Barclay, the health

How to heal the NHS: Getting to the cradle safely is a priority. But what of the passage to the grave?

Adam Kay, the doctor turned writer-comedian whose diaries about his career in medicine became a global sensation, visits Australia for the first time this month.

Research will prompt further alarm among medical leaders trying to tackle the spiralling workforce crisis

The number living with serious health conditions will rise nine times faster than those of healthy working age.

A new book brings together over 100 photos from the early decades of Britain’s publicly funded National Health Service, a national institution that turns 75 this week.

Life expectancy in Britain, as in almost all other rich countries, had been rising for nearly two centuries. But something went wrong in the early 2010s.

Most winters, headlines warn that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is at "breaking point." The alarms sound over and over and over again. But the current crisis has set warning bells ringing louder than before.

A harrowing Guardian report depicts the struggle to deliver care, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person - and ignores the politics of their distress, says psychologist Sanah Ahsan

As the health safety watchdog warns on ambulance delays, the BBC investigates the case of 94-year-old Ken Shadbolt.